Greatest Animated TV Series EVER! (Voting)

[LumRanmaYasha]

Yawn, next round.

[VLordGTZ]

Here we go:
Maison Ikkoku - Easily the best romantic comedy I've ever seen. 
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo -  It's hilarious. 
Archer - It was really good.  I'll definitely watch some more episodes later.
Urusei Yatsura - It was good............but Archer was better.

[Avaitor]

Yawn, next round.

You and EK really need to watch Archer already.

[The Shadow Gentleman]

After watching the linked episodes:

Archer
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (bobo...bo...bo-bo...bo)
Urusei Yatsura
Maison Ikkoku

And yes, I am now legitimately interested in watching more Bobobo.  8)

[gunswordfist]

Meh, not until my backlog is clear of shows I actually want to watch.

[Avaitor]

Meh, not until my backlog is clear of shows I actually want to watch.

[LumRanmaYasha]

And yes, I am now legitimately interested in watching more Bobobo.  8)

Please also watch more of Maison Ikkoku. It really is the best romance anime ever made. Maybe I should have chosen a more plot/drama-oriented episode. Blame Vlord if you didn't like the one I put up, since he's the one who suggested it...

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm going to skip this round, not because I haven't seen any of them (I've seen them all, actually) but because there is no real way for me to choose a proper ranking for them. It definitely doesn't help that those two are Takahashi's best.

[LumRanmaYasha]

I'm going to skip this round, not because I haven't seen any of them (I've seen them all, actually) but because there is no real way for me to choose a proper ranking for them. It definitely doesn't help that those two are Takahashi's best.

Though, I must say that I found that the Urusei Yatsura anime was actually quite different from Takahashi's manga in several aspects. The anime's version of the stories tone down the wackiness of the manga, but replace it with wittier dialogue and character based jokes that still makes it just as funny, but in different ways.  The anime also has 4 extra recurring characters, known as Lum's Stormtroopers, the most prominent of which, Megane, is actually used just as much as Mendou is and is one of the funniest characters in the series. The most interesting difference, though, is that the anime has...very strange, experimental episodes. These two in particular are some of the best of these types of episodes, so if you have only read the manga, I'd encourage you to check them out since they are very different from the manga in tone and very interesting to watch. I still prefer the manga overall, though, for various reasons the most important of which is that some of the anime's episodes suffer from omitting Takahashi's style of humor or from the story changes, and because Ten's episodes are less interesting in the anime as well, but when the anime does it's own thing well, it does it really well, which is why it's still one of my favorites.

That said, I actually slightly (emphasis on the slightly) prefer the Maison Ikkoku anime to the manga, solely because I felt the anime made an already wonderful story even better in the way they executed it. Though I still don't know why they decided to skip the parts they did and completely write out Nozomu Nikaido. 

[VLordGTZ]

Blame Vlord if you didn't like the one I put up, since he's the one who suggested it...

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

You and EK really need to watch Archer already.

I already have watched some of Archer (only a few episode, but I've still seen at least something of it).

[Avaitor]

Well, I checked out my missing gaps here. If I get into more of an anime mood at some point, I'll have to consider trying some more of these out! For now, here are my rankings

Archer
Maison Ikkoku
Urusei Yatsura
Bobobo-Bo-Bobobo

Bobobo has some good random humor, but I wasn't really in the right mood for it. The other two feel more up my alley right now.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Bobobo has some good random humor, but I wasn't really in the right mood for it. The other two feel more up my alley right now.

Understandable. Bobobo isn't a show that appeals to everyone, even though I'll always love it myself. I do recommend you watch Maison Ikkoku, though, since it really is an excellent anime series and the best of it's kind, and Urusei Yatsura as well, though with that series I might recommend reading the manga first since I personally find it more consistent (though, again, the anime has some pretty great episodes that are not in the manga, such as those two other episodes I've linked in reply #203).

[Foggle]

After watching all those episodes, I think I'm gonna have to go with the same rankings as ShadowGentleman for this one.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Well, all that's left is for me to vote so we can proceed with the next round...

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - My favorite anime, second favorite animated series, and third favorite show of all time. While it's got some problems, mostly in the second season, it still makes me laugh hard all these years later, and probably has the greatest dub any anime comedy has ever been graced with to boot.

Maison Ikkoku - My third favorite anime, and the best romance anime ever made. I should have put up a more plot/drama oriented episode, since it seems the episode Vlord suggested I put up wasn't all that appealing to most people here. Whatever your first impression was of it, please do give it another shot sometime, because it really is a story worth experiencing and checking out. I was considering putting this first so that it could go on, since I actually think it's more worthy of being called one of the greatest animated series ever more than Bobobo, but it seems you guys like the latter more, so it might have a better chance to make it farther in this competition.

Urusei Yatsura - It can be inconsistent at parts, but the range of it's stories is surprisingly wide, and it's incredible where and when it counts (hell, it even has better animation and directing than a lot of anime have today), and you can easily see how it inspired the kind of humor you see in most anime comedies today, both good and bad.

Archer - This was going to move on no matter where I put it, so I put it last to give the others more of a boost.  Anyway, it's by far the most consistently hilarious animated series currently running, and I fully expect it to make it to at least the semifinals.

And with my votes, the results are...

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - 14
Urusei Yatsura - 9
Archer - 15
Maison Ikkoku - 12

Sterling Archer and the Bo-tector head into the hair-raising danger zone that is round 2:

Round 1, The 100 Toon Kumite: Match 20


School Rumble

VS.


Samurai Champloo

VS.


Gravity Falls

VS.


TaleSpin

My Picks:

School Rumble - One of my favorite anime comedies. Funny characters that actually get good development, and it manages to get even better as it goes on, a real rarity when it comes to comedy anime, especially romantic and school-based comedy anime, which makes it probably one of the best I've ever seen.

Samurai Champloo - Not quite on the same level as Cowboy Bebop, but it's still great stuff and has some serious style. Plus, it's ending theme is amazing.

TaleSpin - Another great entry from the Disney Afternoon and an old favorite of mine, though I do need to give it a good rewatch in full one of these days.

Gravity Falls - Unlike other people...I just think Gravity Falls is a good show, but not a great one yet. It's had some pretty great episodes so far, but it's also had quite a few duds too. I'm hoping the second season will be much better, but right now, I don't really like it enough to rank it over the other shows in this match.